Johnson aide shares fears that subpoena could lead to relase of ‘sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors’ with Hutchinson

The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.

A sexting problem in the GOP could have kept Republicans from interrogating a key political target. The Washington Post reports that Republicans avoided subpoenaing Mark Meadows' former Chief of Staff Cassidy Hutchinson last year to avoid the embarrassing fallout of her testimony.

An aide for Speaker Mike Johnson warned that subpoenaing Cassidy Hutchinson could reveal salacious texts from members, The Washington Post reports